The artifact was found in Neoi Epivates, a suburb of Thessaloniki, Greece. Upon its discovery, the man took the statue to his local police station where experts were called in to ...

Authorities say the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period and are investigating how it ended up among garbage. It was worse for the wear, lacking a head and arms.

Ovid’s playful poetry made him a favorite among Rome’s elite, but angered Emperor Augustus. Just as he was producing his finest work, Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD) was exiled to the darkest corner of ...

Our head comes from this time, a year or two after Augustus became emperor. It was once part of a full-length statue that showed him as a warrior, slightly larger than life-sized. It's broken off ...

Turns out, the statue was composed of diverse parts: its head was created during the reign of Augustus around 31 B.C.E.–14 C.E., while its body was carved when Claudius was in power, around 41 ...

The Halsted curator Karen Manchester notes that the statue is an amalgam of two sculptures from different eras—the head from one made during the reign of Augustus (31BCE-14CE), and the body ...

A commemorative marker will be revealed on February 8 at Singleton Way and South Witchduck Road in honor of Willis Augustus ...

An archaeologist determined that the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period, which lasted from 323 B.C. until 31 B.C., between the death of Alexander the Great and the rise of Augustus in Rome.

Our head comes from this time, a year or two after Augustus became emperor. It was once part of a full-length statue that showed him as a warrior, slightly larger than life-sized. It's broken off ...